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Aids And New England Hospitals, Jesse Green, Neil Wintfeld, Madeleine Singer, Kevin Schulman Jan 1988

Aids And New England Hospitals, Jesse Green, Neil Wintfeld, Madeleine Singer, Kevin Schulman

New England Journal of Public Policy

The Centers for Disease Control projects that nine thousand persons with AIDS will be alive in New England in 1991, representing a sevenfold increase from 1986. Our analysis indicates that more than 2 percent of medical/surgical beds in New England will be used for AIDS care by 1991, representing 766 fully occupied hospital beds. The direct cost of providing hospital care to New England's AIDS patients is projected to be $195.2 million in 1991, reflecting 3 percent of all hospital inpatient costs in the region.

AIDS treatment is very unevenly distributed among hospitals in New England. Just twenty hospitals (8 …


Liability For Transmission Of Aids In The Hospital Workplace: A Critique Of Mandatory Aids Testing Of Hospital Patients, Anne Shaffer Jan 1988

Liability For Transmission Of Aids In The Hospital Workplace: A Critique Of Mandatory Aids Testing Of Hospital Patients, Anne Shaffer

West Virginia Law Review

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